Volume 13, Issue 7 - Oct. 5, 1990

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ETROPOLITAN

The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979

Denver, Colorado

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Volume 13, Issue 7

October 5, 1990

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NEWS

FEATURES

If you smoke ... please try this story page4

CU-Denver's 'Fantasticks' not so fantastic page 13

SP()RTS

U. of Wyoming highlights men's basketball schedule page 16

Minority recruitment policy draws fire Met Staff

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Jenifer Ericson, MSCO graduate, sits surrounded by her artwork: Ericson is working on her "Spectators" series, opening Oct. 19 at a gallery at 30th and Larimer streets. Two of her scuptures are being shown at the Metro Center for Visual Arts at 1701 Wazee St.

Campus shooting leads to arrest Met Staff

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A Sept. 27 shooting on the Auraria Campus left one man with a gunshot wound to the foot and another in jail charged with aggravated assault. Dominique Wortham, 21, a Community College ofDenver student and Denver resident, is being held in the Denver County Jail on a charge of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of Calvin McGee, 21, of Denver. Bail has been set at $250,000. According to the Denver Police Department offense report, McGee, whose campus ties remain unclear, told officers that "all persons involved were at a meeting of the Black Student Alliance at (the) Community College of Denver when he and the suspects became involved in a shoving match." Besides Wortham, former CCD student

Keith Brown of Denver was ordered in for questioning and rele;tSed. At approximately 4 p.m. , Auraria Public Safety received a report of a fight in progress outside of the Student Union. Sgt: Jim Ferguson, Auraria Public Safety public information officer, said that there was no fight at the reported location. Officers located a red Toyota parked on the sidewalk by the South Oassroom Building, and four students standing close to the building. Ferguson said that he approached the owner of the car, who identified himself as one of the people involved in the fight earlier at the Student Union. He told Ferguson the people involved were trying to resolve their differences. "Dominique (Wortham) was involved in the shoving match that was called out at the student center and that's what we responded on," Ferguson said. APS officers, unaware the shooting had already occurred, detained no one. The police report stated that McGee told

police that he and Wortham "have had a long-standing dislike for one another as a result of earlier confrontations involving firearms." According to the police report, Wortham and Brown produced unknown caliber handguns outside South Classroom Building when another argument erupted. Three to four rounds were fired from Wortham's small-caliber handgun. One bullet entered McGee's left ankle and exited through his heel. McGee made his own arrangements for medical treatment after Denver General Hospital ambulance technicians determined the wound was not life threatening. "We have since suspended the student (Wortham) pending investigation of our office. . and from any student organizations or functions on campus," George Gallegos, vice president ofStudent Services at CCD, said. David Windom, 21, McGee's roommate and a witness to the shooting, later said that the BSA was not involved, but refused to comment on the incident. 0

On June 29, Metropolitan State College of Denver announced a program that will offer cash incentives to departments that hire minority faculty. In recent weeks, that action has come under fire from both a tenured, hispanic MSCD faculty member and "The Rocky Mountain News." The program, which was designed to increase both the numbers and percentages of minority faculty members at MSCD, was addressed in an Oct. 1 inter-office memo from Lou Talman, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences (see pg. lO ). Talman called the school policy of providing $5,000 to departments that hire " ethnic " faculty "nothing more than racism, sexism, or whatever the analogous term derived from 'ethnic' might be." He went on to add that "These prescriptions for ' balance' demean and insult both those they discriminate in favor of and those they discriminate against." In a Sept. 21 "Rocky Mountain News" commentary, Editorial Page Editor Vincent Carroll said that MSCD no longer has aright 路 to call itself an equal opportunity employer and that the school should be sued for false advertisement if it makes such a claim. Meanwhile, MSCD is actively pursuing its new policy which includes creating positions in departments that are " underutilized" for ethnic faculty , even if that department does not have an opening. Larry Johnson, dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said that the LAS is sending faculty members to recruit potential professors in cities with higher numbers of black candidates. "We are looking for black teachers to compete with the whites for the same job," Johnson said. "We are not guaranteeing anybody any job because of their race. "This is a touchy issue because we want the best qualified teachers for the job." The third part of the policy allows a departmenttoprovideamaximumof$8,000 a year for as many as five years for an ethnic candidate to finish their advanced degree. anglo candidates are not eligible for this stipend. "An essential part of improving the multicultural diversity at MSCD is an increase in the number of ethinc faculty," Thomas Brewer, MSCD president said in June. 0


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